The New Group

The Canadians, Chicagoans, Baltimoreans, and Philadelphians arrived here in the past 24 hours. The house was eerily quiet after the last group left and I missed them terribly. This new group is exciting and very different--a little more mellow because the adult-to-teenager ratio is higher.

I went today with the Canadians to the guardaria because one of them paid for the entire project in the name of her daughter who died four years ago of drowning. She has chosen to call it Guarderia Angel Mia. Here's the website if you want to check it out: http://www.angelmia.ca/ It really is quite a neat project and I found it very touching to be there when Mia's mother saw the guarderia for the first time.

I had great fun with them today watching them run around in the muck and get excited about seeing all sorts of things for the first time. I felt vaguely more qualified and quite a bit less stressed even though I have a bizarre, random allergy attack (I don't know what to). The kids were adorable and I really enjoyed chatting with them. We ended up arguing furiously about the world cup and who really should have won. I said Germany. They said Spain. We called a truce and agreed to disagree.